On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 04:51:37PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 20:55 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:09:54PM -0700, Evan Broder wrote: > > > If we're going to focus on making this easier, can we focus on the > > > first two options? Historically speaking, packages that live solely in > > > Ubuntu and aren't part of any release's user experience tend to end up > > > largely orphaned by a MOTU team that's overworked and understaffed. > > > > Amen. Even just from fixing builds over the last few weeks, I'm getting > > tired of fixing stuff that was stuffed into Ubuntu a few releases ago > > and then ignored! > > I'm slightly curious. If someone managed to get a package in Ubuntu, but > then stopped maintaining it, why would encouraging him to get it into > Debian make him more likely to maintain it?
My observation is that Debian is more proactive about removing packages that are no longer maintained than we are, and we semi-automatically follow removals from Debian. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
